To put a PICT file into a handle, you have to start at byte 513 and read from there to bypass the 512 byte header.

Al Staffieri Jr.

I think Type 1 PICT's can support only the eight "old-style" QuickDraw colors(black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow), while Type 2 PICT's support Color QuickDraw (full color). So you could have a Type 2 PICT that happens to be b&w; and you could have a Type 1 PICT that contains (limited)colors.

I haven't worked with it in a while, but I found this bit of code in a program which analyzes the contents of a PICT data structure. In the following, picPtr& is a pointer (_not_ a handle!) to the PICT structure.